Hi folks,
I'd like to ask your opinion on a situation that happened tonight in my regular friendly home game :
I got A
8
on the Button
My opponent got A
5
on SB
We're 4 to limp to that flop : A
3
6
SB opens to 4BB, MP calls, one guy folds and I call
Turn is the 8
SB leads again to 5BB, MP folds, I raise to 20BB
Before SB could act, dealer dealt the Q
I was very frustrated about not having the possibility to know for sure if he would have called my raise or not.
I have to admit that good logic would say that he would had called for sure and hit his missing
on river, thus winning the pot whatever the action was on river.
BUT my opinion is we can't simply "suppose" he would had called my raise, he "probably" would had, but he didn't have the possibility since the card was dealt before...
My opponent suggested we kept this river but nobody could bet on river and the winning hand would take the pot (meaning him), but I said "hey no man, I can't know for sure you would had called my turn raise, that's not fair".
2 or 3 other people were shouting, said I was wrong, it was big mess and everybody wanted to move on to the next hand, so we finally decided to share the pot equally (my opponent was not upset at all about this situation), and at this point one other player called me a "sore loser" and a "f**kin miser".
I wanted to propose a deal, like dealing another river for the entire pot or something like that to make things really fair, but people just wanted to move on and I was kinda frustrated to have that "sore loser" image, especially when other players didn't really understand what the action really was (they didn't understand that I raised him, thus making him to face a decision).
Just for the anecdote, at the end of the game, I picked the entire deck and told my opponent I would deal a random card as a 2nd river for the hand that occurred and if that was a
again, I would give him my share of the pot.
He didn't really understand what I meant but I picked a card in the deck and it was the A
, giving me a full house if we still had our hands.
What you think about the whole situation ?
Should I suppose he would had called my turn raise for sure and concede him the pot ? Am I really a sore loser or was I right to object about him taking the whole pot ?
Thanks in advance